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#475 - Tim Clare - The Crippling World Of Modern Anxiety

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Anxiety Makes Us Crave Certainty

Anxiety craves certainty. It submits to authority. We want people just to tell us what to do and the way out is uncertainty. There is something much more terrifying behind anxiety. If it's not your fault, there actually is no sequence of things you can totally do to stop bad things happening again. That is the horrible truth about being human alive in the world that we are asking anxious people to embrace when we ask them to come the woods. And i think that's where we've got tatartright? That it's there's reason to hold on to the destructive beliefs of anxiety and panic. But it's also where liberation lies.

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